Auxiliary container for railroad-signals.



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AUXILIARY CONTAINER FOR RAILROAD SIGNALS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21. I9l5.

Patented May 30, 1916.

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GRANT SELBY, 0F FLETCHER, OKLAHOMA.

AUXILIARY CONTAINER FOR RAILROAID SIGNAL$ Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30, 1916.

Application filed June 21, 1915. Serial No. 35,422.

.a full, clear, and exact description, refer ence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in auxiliary containers for railroad signals and the object of my invention is to construct a simple, compact and practical auxiliary container for railroad, torpedoes, fusees, or other signal devices to be used by railroad brakemen, fiaginen etc., the 'torpedoes and fusees being contained in separate semi-water proof compartments so as not to come in contact with each other.

The reason for an auxiliary container lies in the fact that railroatlcrews operate over sections of railroad of different lengths and different time schedules and therefore require varying quantities of signals, such as torpedoes and fusees; the weight to'be' carried must. be a minimum so that a large container cannot be used efliciently for a small number of signals.

The object of my auxiliary container is to supply a container which can easily be detached and attached to or from another container so that the auxiliary container need only be carried for the longer runs '5. e., when a larger number of signals are to be carried.

Although my auxiliary container can be.

or fail to carry the signals and hence offer little protection in avoiding accidents etc.

The auxiliary container of applicant is constructed so as to make it possible, to ca y all the necessary signals, a minimum of space and with as little inconvenience as possible.

The detailed objects are to make the auxiliary container quick-detachable, of maxi mum space efficiency, firmly secured to the principal, container when attached by a spring, which acts as a hook for supporting the auxiliary device when not inuse, to have doors for gaining access to the compartments of the auxiliary container, covered by a wall of the principal container thereby doubly securing the auxiliary container against the entrance of moisture.

lVith the above purposes in view, my in vention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described,

pointed out in the claim, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings in which- Figure l 1 shows a side elevation of a standard railroad signal container with my device attached. Fig. 2 shows one end elevation of a standard railroad signal container with my device attachedand Fig. 3 shows the other end elevation of a standard railroad signal container with my device attached and Fig. 1 shows a longitudinal sectional elevation of my auxiliary container. Fig. 5. is a cross section on the line55 of Fig. l.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings 5 designates the flag compartment, 6 the torpedo and fusee compartment of the standard railroad signal container, 7 the end closure for the flag compartment, with the ring and eye 8 thereto attached for facility in moving the flag; 9 designates a. hinged door on the one end of the fusee compartment and 10 a spring latch by which said door is maintained in its closed position. The description thus far is limited to that of standard railroad signal container. to which applicant makes no specific claim in this application.

My device consists of the container 11 which is divided into two compartments 12 and 13 by the partition 14 and sealed at its extremities by the caps 15 and 16. The container 11 has its sides and bottom made of one piece of sheet metal, the bottom being convexly arcuated thereby conforming more nearly to the longitudinal configuration of a standard. railroad fusee. The top of my device is concavely arcuated and made to QOnforIn to the exterior su fac f one of sol the compartments'of the standard railroad signal container so that my device will fit snugly against the container surface as shown by the'lines 17 and 1-8 -of Figs. 2 and 3. 7

'In the upper concave surface of my device over compartment 12 is a concave rectangular openingwhich is, covered by the door 19 which conforms to the shape of said opening. Door 19 is longitudinally hingedly secured to said-upper concave surface. Similarly formed over a similar opening on the 'upper surface over compartment 13 lmmediately adjacent door 19 is located door 20, which admitsof access .therethroug'h into compartmentfl3. The rolled edges of doors 19 and 20 when..closed are held fast by a pieceof heavy'spring'wire securely-and im-- movably attached .to cap-15 by means of the eyeand plate 29 and 80. The .prongs 27 and 28 are of such length 'andso bent that when they engage thejcompartment 6 the concave surface of my device is immediately adjacent the convex surface .of the standard railway signal container. Hook 26 is 'formed of two prongs 31 and 32 'hingedly V device-is attached by first hooking secured to the..cap 16 by the eye plate 33. Hook 26 is 'made of one piece of heavy spring wire of such length and so bent, that when it is in the position shown in Fig. 3,

the upper endsof the prongs frictionally engage the surfaces of compartment 6 and hold :cap 16 immediately adjacent my cle-v vice.

' the prongs 27 .andj28 over one end of the l compartment 6, theiprongs '31 and 32 of cap 16.1 After my device is brought into the hook 2.6 then'being at right angles to the position shown in Fig. 1 with the exception of hook 26, hook 26 is revolved until the prongs 31 and 32 engage the surfaces of compartment 6' as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. In removing my device from the standard railroad signal container, the operations are reversed.

It is to be noted that by my structure the insides of compartments 12 and 13 are doubly protected from moisture and foreign matter, first by the doors 19 and 20, and then by the external convex wall of compartment 6. Furthermore no signals can be removed from my device without detaching it from the standard container which means that the .brakeman will exhaust the signals in the original container before using those held in my device.

When my device is not in use it can be suspended by the hook 25. The positioning of hook 26 .as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 over the spring latch 10 also secures a double locking of the fusee chamber of the standard railroad signal container, it being necessaryto revolve hook 26 before door 9 can be opened.

What I claim and mean to secure by Lettors Patent is:

In .a device of the character described a principal container an auxiliary railroad signal container, compartments, doors for said compartments a stationary and a movable member one positioned at each end of said container the members being of such length and shape as to so engage a principal container that said container and principal container will be immediately adjacent each other and that the wall of said principal container will completelyenvelop the doors of said auxiliary container.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name .to this specification, in presence of a subscribing witness.

GRANT SELBY. Witness WALTER H. FISHER.

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